The entire conference on a single page.
Mini-confs
| Monday 28th January 2008 |
Tuesday 29th January 2008 |
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| Community Wireless | Gentoo Down Under |
| Fedora |
LinuxChix |
| Education |
MySQL |
| Debian |
Gaming |
| Security |
SysAdmin |
| Multimedia |
Distro Summit |
| Embedded |
GNOME.conf.au |
| Virtualisation |
Kernel |
Wednesday
| Copland |
Old Arts D |
Old Arts E |
Old Arts A |
Old Arts B |
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| Keynote 9:00am |
Bruce Schneier |
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| Break 10:10am |
Morning Tea | ||||
| Tutorial 1 (Sessions 1 & 2) 10:30am |
Writing really rad GTK and GNOME applications ... in C, Python, or Java! presented by Davyd Madeley, Andrew Cowie, Davyd Madeley, Andrew Cowie [Slides OGG part A OGG part B SPX part A SPX part B] |
Hardware / Software Hacking: Joining Second Life to the Real World presented by Jonathan Oxer, Jonathan Oxer [Slides OGG part A OGG part B SPX part A SPX part B] |
GIMP-fu and You: Writing GIMP Scripts presented by Akkana Peck, Akkana Peck [Slides OGG part A OGG part B SPX part A SPX part B] |
Building a video remixing web-site using Annodex presented by Shane Stephens, Shane Stephens [Slides OGG part A OGG part B SPX part A SPX part B] |
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| Break 12:20pm |
Lunch | ||||
| Session 3 1:30pm |
The Kernel Report presented by Jonathan Corbet, Jonathan Corbet [Slides OGG SPX] |
Fixing XFS Filesystems Faster presented by Dave Chinner, Dave Chinner [Slides OGG SPX] |
AbiCollab - Rich Text Collaborative Editting presented by Martin Sevior, Martin Sevior [Slides OGG SPX] |
How to Build an Embedded Asterisk IP-PBX presented by David Rowe, David Rowe [Slides OGG SPX] |
Working around POSIX's faults: Improving the reliability of Linux named services (NSS) for large institutions presented by Jamie Wilkinson, Vasilios Hoffman, Jamie Wilkinson, Vasilios Hoffman [Slides OGG SPX] |
| Session 4 2:30pm |
Tux's Angels: Incident Response Unravelled presented by Vanessa Tomah, Amelia Charlton, Kate McInnes, Vanessa Tomah, Amelia Charlton, Kate McInnes [Slides OGG SPX] |
OLPC presented by Jim Gettys, Jim Gettys [Slides ] |
Make hardware vendors love open source presented by Dirk Hohndel, Dirk Hohndel [ OGG SPX] |
Do Microkernels Suck? presented by Gernot Heiser, Gernot Heiser [Slides OGG SPX] |
What's up in the Linux IPv6 Stack presented by Hideaki Yoshifuji, Hideaki Yoshifuji [Slides OGG SPX] |
| Break 3:20pm |
Afternoon Tea | ||||
| Session 5 3:40pm |
X Acceleration That Finally Works presented by Carl Worth, Carl Worth [Slides OGG SPX] |
Peace, Love, and Rockets! presented by Bdale Garbee, Bdale Garbee [Slides OGG SPX] |
The Consumer View of Technology presented by Steven Ellis, Steven Ellis [Slides OGG SPX] |
Anatomy of a Video Codec presented by Timothy Terriberry, Timothy Terriberry [Slides OGG SPX] |
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The importance of understanding User Requirements: how can Models help? presented by Sandrine Balbo, Sandrine Balbo
[Slides ] is being held during Sessions 1 & 2 in the University of Melbourne Usability Lab.
Partners Programme
We will take a coach to Healesville Sanctuary in the morning and spend the day amongst Australian native animals. Upon our return we will join the other conference delegates for the Penguin Dinner at the Night Market.
Social Programme
Tonight is the Penguin Dinner.
Thursday
Partners Programme
After last night's dinner we will start a bit later this morning and take a tram to explore the Fitzroy Gardens. After lunch we will head over to the museum precinct and visit the Melbourne Museum.
Social Programme
Tonight are the Professional Delegates Networking Session and Google Student Party.
Friday
| Copland |
Old Arts D |
Old Arts E |
Old Arts A |
Old Arts B |
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| Keynote 9:00am |
Anthony Baxter Two Snake Enter, One Snake Leave? [Slides] [OGG] [SPX] |
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| Break 10:10am |
Morning Tea | ||||
| Session 1 10:30am |
Bringing kittens back to life - continuing story of open source graphics drivers presented by Dave Airlie, Dave Airlie [Slides OGG SPX] |
Escaping Hostile Networks Nicely presented by Dafydd Harries, Dafydd Harries [Slides OGG SPX] |
Introducing the Coherent Remote File System presented by Zach Brown, Zach Brown [Slides OGG SPX] |
Virtual Worlds - Open Source & Open Standards presented by Kelly Yeoh, Christopher Yeoh, Kelly Yeoh, Christopher Yeoh [Slides OGG SPX] |
Seeking is hard: Ogg design internals presented by Ralph Giles, Ralph Giles [Slides OGG SPX] |
| Session 2 11:30am |
Stop in the Name of Law presented by Kimberlee Weatherall, Kimberlee Weatherall [Slides OGG SPX] |
Suspend to disk - why does it hurt so? presented by Matthew Garrett, Matthew Garrett [Slides OGG SPX] |
After 25 Years, C/C++ Understands Concurrency presented by Paul McKenney, Paul McKenney [Slides OGG SPX] |
Securing the DNS, one zone at a time presented by Andrew Ruthven, Andrew Ruthven [Slides OGG SPX] |
Farsight 2: Video conferencing made easy presented by Olivier Crête, Olivier Crête [Slides OGG SPX] |
| Break 12:20pm |
Lunch | ||||
| Session 3 1:30pm |
NFS Tuning Secrets, or, Why Does "Sync" Do Two Different Things? presented by Greg Banks, Greg Banks [Slides OGG SPX] |
Practical Real-Time Programming in Userspace presented by Lennart Poettering, Lennart Poettering [Slides OGG SPX] |
Roadmap to recovery: Pain and Redemption in X driver development presented by Keith Packard, Keith Packard [Slides OGG SPX] |
Create your own Open Source Dance Mat presented by Tamara Olliver, Tamara Olliver [Slides OGG SPX] |
lguest64 - a new breed of puppies presented by Glauber Costa, Glauber Costa [Slides OGG SPX] |
| Session 4 2:30pm |
The Australian Open Source Industry & Community Census 2007 presented by Pia Waugh, Jeff Waugh, Pia Waugh, Jeff Waugh [ OGG SPX] |
Managing Linux with Puppet presented by Luke Kanies, Luke Kanies [Slides OGG SPX] |
Programming the Cell Processor: A simple raytracer from pseudo- to spu-code presented by Michael Ellerman, Michael Ellerman [Slides OGG SPX] |
Designing Libray APIs: How to Make Users Love Your Library. presented by Erik de Castro Lopo, Erik de Castro Lopo [Slides OGG SPX] |
Direct I/O on block device: scalability of I/O submission and processing paths presented by Matthew Wilcox, Matthew Wilcox |
| Break 3:20pm |
Afternoon Tea | ||||
| Session 5 3:40pm |
Lightning Talks [OGG] [SPX] |
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| Session 6 4:40pm |
Conference Close [OGG] [SPX] |
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Partners Programme
Today we will explore further afield and take a coach to Ballarat. Here we will visit Sovereign Hill.
Social Programme
Tonight is the Google Party.
Linux Australia Annual General Meeting
Today the results from the Linux Australia elections are announced during the annual general meeting, which starts at 11am at Union House.
Open Day - Saturday 2 February 2008
Following the outstanding success of Open Day at linux.conf.au 2007, we're repeating the day.
By shifting it to a Saturday we hope even more people will be able to come along, experience some of the magic of the conference and find out more about Free and Open Source software from the project teams, community groups, organisations and sponsors who'll be doing show and tell.
Union House
The University of Melbourne
